Cracked gold theatrical mask beside a low cluster of red poppies on dark teal

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Mrs. Madeline Drake

Have you ever tried... not being a mutant?

— X2 · 2003

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker offers a dismissive suggestion that someone simply try not being a mutant, as if a defining trait were a habit that could be dropped. The tentative, faux-helpful phrasing seems to mask a refusal to accept difference.

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